links for 2007-01-28

“YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said today his company (now owned by Google) ‘is going to move in [the] direction’ of rewarding video creators for their content, as part of a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.”

“RTL news director says that free newspapers are not the way of the future after the Netherlands’ third free daily newspaper is launched… the mobile telephone would instead become the main vehicle for news.”

“Intel’s advance was in part in finding a new insulator composed of an alloy of hafnium, a metallic element that has previously been used in filaments and electrodes and as a neutron absorber in nuclear power plants.”

Video of Craig Newmark Q&A. “Media Threat or Robin Hood of the new millennium? take your pick. But one thing is for sure: his spirit of people’s interaction and extremely modest capitalism is a powerful and arguably unprecedented force in the media worl

“Newmark infers that charging was the only solution to this problem of bad ads and pressure to post for brokers. I disagree. Sounds more like a lack of imagination. And the folks in the audience seemed to pick up on it.”

“This vision is unfulfilled. The website´s own research demonstrates that latimes.com is virtually invisible in greater Los Angeles. By some measures, the site is losing traction even faster than the newspaper.”

“In the absence of any British, European or ANSI Standard… for this important but poorly-specified reference item, it was decided to conduct an independent assessment of exactly how much use one of them was.”

“According to ABC Electronic, which audits website figures, The Guardian had 13.8m unique users in December 2006 compared with The Daily Telegraph’s 6.4m. However, the figures do not show how many users were UK-based.”